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mistressofmuses) wrote2025-06-03 10:30 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2025-06-03 10:30 pm
Monday: FastCAT
On Monday, we took Bella to a FastCAT competition. It's rare for them to be on anything other than a weekend, so it was nice to get to go for a change! This is only the second time I've been able to go with her.
Alex let her go at the start of the run, and I caught her at the end. The first run felt really slow, but was actually a better time than I'd expected. The second one was a fairly decent time, though she'd started to slow down a little bit by the end.
It's Bella!
I was using the selfie camera to try and get a better pic of Bella in the car, but then we took an actual selfie. Sort of, haha. Me, Bella, and Alex. I am not actually choking her.
This event was at the Adams County fairgrounds, which had a nice little pond to look out on.
Pelican attaaaaack! (Half-flying across the pond to check out whether some people might feed it.)
Bella's times weren't amazing, but were respectable! Not her best times, but it wasn't *that* long ago that I didn't expect she'd ever get times like these, ha. (They accidentally wrote "2" on her first run tag, but the top one was run #1.)
Little Bella no-ears.
Too Many Pelicans.
After the FastCAT, we were reluctant to head straight back home. We ended up heading out east toward the plains a bit, just to kind of take a drive and see if there was anything interesting. We were hopeful maybe some dramatic thunderstorms might come up, but those didn't happen until later in the evening.
We did stop at a rest stop for a while, and I got to see a bunch of great-tailed grackles, which are quite different than the usual common grackles we get. They're much bigger!
Looking up through the branches of a tree, lots of grackle nests!
We also saw turkeys! And a hawk swoop down and come up carrying a snake, which was pretty impressive. (Sadly, no pictures.)
It was a nice drive, even though we didn't actually get any exciting weather.
Alex let her go at the start of the run, and I caught her at the end. The first run felt really slow, but was actually a better time than I'd expected. The second one was a fairly decent time, though she'd started to slow down a little bit by the end.
It's Bella!
I was using the selfie camera to try and get a better pic of Bella in the car, but then we took an actual selfie. Sort of, haha. Me, Bella, and Alex. I am not actually choking her.
Five more pictures:
This event was at the Adams County fairgrounds, which had a nice little pond to look out on.
Pelican attaaaaack! (Half-flying across the pond to check out whether some people might feed it.)
Bella's times weren't amazing, but were respectable! Not her best times, but it wasn't *that* long ago that I didn't expect she'd ever get times like these, ha. (They accidentally wrote "2" on her first run tag, but the top one was run #1.)
Little Bella no-ears.
Too Many Pelicans.
After the FastCAT, we were reluctant to head straight back home. We ended up heading out east toward the plains a bit, just to kind of take a drive and see if there was anything interesting. We were hopeful maybe some dramatic thunderstorms might come up, but those didn't happen until later in the evening.
We did stop at a rest stop for a while, and I got to see a bunch of great-tailed grackles, which are quite different than the usual common grackles we get. They're much bigger!
Looking up through the branches of a tree, lots of grackle nests!
We also saw turkeys! And a hawk swoop down and come up carrying a snake, which was pretty impressive. (Sadly, no pictures.)
It was a nice drive, even though we didn't actually get any exciting weather.
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I'm glad you had a nice day out.
I read 'great-tailed' as 'goat-tailed' and was like wtf?!! *g*
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It was a nice day.
Haha, now I'm trying to picture a goat-tailed grackle... Does the tail look like a goat, or do they simply have a goat's tail..?
There are also "boat-tailed grackles" though they live mostly along the Atlantic coast... perhaps a goat-tailed grackle is a hybrid of the great- and boat-tailed species?
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Lol, Bella the fuzzy worm! The way she squirms, it's not a far-off description.
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Y'all look cute :)
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Thank you! :)
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Bella looks SO HAPPY - in all pictures
Re: Bella looks SO HAPPY - in all pictures
The Frog and Toad shirt is mine! I loved those books so very much. <3
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Aww, congrats to Bella! And no worries about appearing to choke her, that's clearly the classic, dramatic puppy flopping about squirmy squirms haha.
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But thank you! She had a good time. And haha, she is very floppy and squirmy. She's fond of just flinging herself backwards into people, haha.